Mirror Reflects Haystack Fire
ORANGE, Thursday.--Sid Holmes, of Towac, near Orange, saw a fire to a haystack reflected in a mirror at his home at 4.45 a.m. today…
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Posse Fires Shots At Prison Escapee MELBOURNE
A prisoner who escaped from Beechworth jail last night was captured today 18 miles away. He was James McMillan, 26. He was missed at the 7.15 a.m…
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A man was severely burned on hands and face last night in a fire at the Coogee Ice Works garages…
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Vincent Joseph Welsh, 37, of Carrington Road, Coogee, was badly burnt last night, when fire destroyed his motor lorry and two others at the Coogee…
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John Wyatt, 58, who was camped in a hut at Blacktown, risked his life yesterday to save [?]2/8/—all the money he had in the world— and a suit of clothes…
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Trapped between a bushfire and a cordon of police and warders James McMillan, 26, indeterminate sentence prisoner, who escaped from Beechwoith Reformatory last night, was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bushfire Threat. Townships in Danger. Homes Destroyed
Driven by fierce winds, bushfires yesterday endangered townships, destroyed many houses and homesteads, killed thousands of stock, and did…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two Dead in Vic. Bushfires Couple Caught by Flames Great Loss Of Stock MELBOURNE
The first fatalities of this year's bushfires have occurred in Eastern Gippsland, where, yesterday, afternoon, flames, starting in grass paddocks, spread over hundreds of acres of heavily-timbered…
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Seven hundred men are fighting the worst bushfire for 30 years in the Tarcutta-Adelong district…
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THE first victims of this year's bushfires were Alec Woodman, 66, and his wife, 61, of Forge…
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Thousands of pounds' worth of damage to homesteads. stock, fencing, and grasslands has been caused by…
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LITHGOW, Friday.--Two hundred men fought a bushfire which covered miles of country near South Bowenfels yesterday and last night…
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With cooler weather and a change in the wind, most of the bushfires burning in southern New South Wales were brought under control yesterday…
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Bushfires in the Tarcutta district, which, in the last 48 hours, have been responsible for extensive loss of…
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An elderly couple have been burned to death, and many other persons have lost their homes and most of their belongings in bushfires in Victoria this…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Mr. and Mrs. Alec Woodman, burned in the bushfires near Bairnsdale yesterday, died today. Mr. and Mrs. Woodman were the first…
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In the most disastrous fire in the history of the Wagga district, 120,000 acres of wheat and grazing country have been, burnt out. Between 800 and 1000 men have been fighting the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petrol Blaze In Man's Face Down A Well MUSWELLBROOK, Saturdays
When petrol exploded down a well to-day, Leonard Mundon received severe burns to face and arms and was…
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Bushfires on a three-mile front are raging around the small village of Mullion Creek, 11 miles from…
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WAGGA, Saturday.--Landholders mustering stock in properties swept by bushfires are shooting many injured sheep and cattle. The stock, stampeding before…
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